E. A. IKONNIKOVA Doctor of Philological Sciences Sakhalin State University (Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk) japanese literature of the XX century, Haruki Murakami Keywords: "1Q84", translation, A. P. Chekhov, "Sakhalin Island" Spring-summer 2009 surprised Japan with a new and currently considered the most recent work in the work of Haruki Murakami-the novel "1Q84". Thousands of copies of the two-volume Japanese writer's book, which later reached three million copies, became the most notable sensation of the year. Never before in the history of Japanese book sales has such a high mark been recorded (indicating the number of copies sold per unit of time). The phenomenal success of H. Murakami was repeatedly reported by both leading media outlets (NHK TV channel, Yomiuri Shimbun, Mainichi newspapers, etc.) in Japan, as well as foreign publications. And this is not accidental: on the one hand, the novel attracts with its extraordinary problems, on the other - the pages of the book implicitly draw a socio-political picture of the entire Asia-Pacific region. The labyrinths of the artistic space created by H. Murakami take readers not only to different historical periods of Japan itself (real and unreal), but also to dimensions correlated with certain events on the Korean Peninsula, in China, and even on the convict Sakhalin of the Russian Empire of the XIX century. Another round of attention to the novel was caused by the publication in the spring of 2010 of the third part of "1Q84", in which the stories of the main characters do not get their logical conclusion. The novel's open ending and Murakami's own definition of storylines encourage readers to think about the next sequel to the book, which, as often happens with a Japanese writer, can have a paradoxical, completely unexpected ending. In the wake of such popularity, the work of the Japanese writer also attracts the attention of translators. The first foreign-language versions of" 1Q84 " appeared in Ukraine (Ivan Dzyuba lane), in ... Читать далее